Event Description
Everyday individuals, households, and organizations make many decisions that impact the environment in intentional or unintentional ways. Such decisions involve risk, uncertainty, long time-horizons, and distributed responsibility. Elke Weber will examine the cognitive and motivational barriers that often prevent us from making such decisions wisely. Fortunately, there are some solutions. Those involve taking advantage of the ways in which people make decisions and acquire, represent, and process information that go beyond rational deliberation and choice. A better understanding of the abundance of goals that motivate people’s choices and of the multiple ways in which they arrive at their decisions provides entry points to the design of decision environments that help people, households, and organizations make decisions with which they will be more satisfied in the long run.
Event Speaker
Elke Weber, Professor of Psychology and Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please email Melissa Vargas at [email protected].
Hosted by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University.
